TY - JOUR
T1 - Zoning, more than just a tool
T2 - Explaining Houston's regulatory practice
AU - Buitelaar, Edwin
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - The intent of this article is to understand why Houstonians reject zoning while simultaneously adopting a collection of mechanisms that serve zoning-type functions. The answer is found in discursive-institutionalist approaches that emphasize the symbolic meaning (besides the instrumental value) that people give to regulatory tools. Zoning as a label is generally associated with an interference with individual liberty. Apparently, the other interventionist instruments do not carry the same negative value, which makes it possible to implement them without much opposition. Discourses shape institutions, like planning regulations, and we need to unravel and to understand these processes in order to increase the performance of planning.
AB - The intent of this article is to understand why Houstonians reject zoning while simultaneously adopting a collection of mechanisms that serve zoning-type functions. The answer is found in discursive-institutionalist approaches that emphasize the symbolic meaning (besides the instrumental value) that people give to regulatory tools. Zoning as a label is generally associated with an interference with individual liberty. Apparently, the other interventionist instruments do not carry the same negative value, which makes it possible to implement them without much opposition. Discourses shape institutions, like planning regulations, and we need to unravel and to understand these processes in order to increase the performance of planning.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449348464&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09654310902949588
DO - 10.1080/09654310902949588
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70449348464
SN - 0965-4313
VL - 17
SP - 1049
EP - 1065
JO - European Planning Studies
JF - European Planning Studies
IS - 7
ER -